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| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5982 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 9 of 64 13 August 2008 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I think that only people with a pretty good knowledge of English can hear an American accent, so in general terms there is not such American accent, just English accent in Spanish, and whether it is sexy or not I guess it depends on personal taste. Anyway, perhaps most people consider a French or Italian accent sexier, especially male accents in the case of Italian and female for French, that's the commonplace, I've never heard of English accent being sexy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Erubey Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6231 days ago 82 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 64 13 August 2008 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I will say that I have never heard or read a comment that English accented Spanish sounds good, much less sexy. Sure, there is an appeal because someone is foreign, but its not how for example the French accent is seen in America, which is generally positive and even at its worst is snobbish but thats a...positive negative quality? Kind of hard to express for me, but surely someone understands. Kind of like the word smartass.
American accented japanese has basically no appeal from what I know, apart from the appeal of BEING american. Nobody I know thinks someone saying SUu-key for 好きis sexy, cool or good. Sorry americans... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Licel Triglot Newbie Mexico Joined 6045 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 64 13 August 2008 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Same for me All the English courses I took, and most of the movies I've seen are in american English, so as I'm used to that accent I don't find it sexy, on the other hand, I love listening to people with british accent, because for me it sounds different. I've heard a few american tourists and also some french people speaking in Spanish here in Mexico, neither of them sound sexy to me, but I think that depends on each person, everyone likes different things. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JimmyJameskun Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5949 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian | Message 12 of 64 13 August 2008 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think for East Asian languages (mainly Chinese and Japanese), it's different. American accents are definitely not
sexy when it comes to speaking those languages. There are a lot more fluctuations in the tones for each and every word and throughout the whole phrase ... an American accent would just mess the whole sentence up to the point of being incomprehensible. Perhaps if you have the accent, we'll think it's funny or cute in knowing that you're still learning the language and have a long way to go. Intonation is everything. It's more so in Chinese than Japanese where it's subtler and not as required. Korean, I have no idea. But I'm going to go with cholevok and say that foreigners are sexy by default. I think it comes from just knowing the person is from far away - the mystery, oh my! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5995 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 13 of 64 14 August 2008 at 2:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Is the American accent sexy?
No. Even the most attractive woman becomes abhorrent when I hear her speak with (m)any of the American accents. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Autarkis Triglot Groupie Switzerland twitter.com/Autarkis Joined 5953 days ago 95 posts - 106 votes 4 sounds Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 14 of 64 14 August 2008 at 3:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, a Brit sounds more pleasant speaking German than an American, to my ears at least. Does that answer your question?
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6149 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 15 of 64 14 August 2008 at 5:16am | IP Logged | ||
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An English accent in any foreign language sounds horrid to me. I especially hate the diphthongization of pure vowel sounds.
And Chinese foreign language accents too, some of the Olympic announcers just sound terrible, especially the female speaking French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alfajuj Diglot Senior Member Taiwan Joined 6212 days ago 121 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Taiwanese, French | Message 16 of 64 14 August 2008 at 6:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I can attest that an American accent in Mandarin sounds absolutely horrible. Even worse than a Chinese accent in English.
Would it be sexy? No. Never once in 16 years have I ever heard a Taiwanese person say that an American accent is sexy. It's not just American, almost any westerner who is a beginner in Mandarin will have just godawful intonation. Once one has the intonation on track it's ok. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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